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Vérité

Vérité

Survived

French Navy

TypePre-dreadnought battleship
ClassLiberté
WarFirst World War
Main guns4 × 12″ guns

Pre-dreadnought in the Mediterranean.

Photograph of French battleship Vérité, in the Hudson River, New York, Hudson-Fulton Celebration, 1909. Photo: Detroit Publishing Co. no. 022620., Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

  • 4 × 305 mm (12 in) guns
  • 10 × 194 mm (7.6 in) guns
  • 13 × 65 mm (2.6 in) guns
  • 10 × 47 mm (1.9 in) guns
  • 2 × 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes

Armour

  • Belt: 180 to 280 mm (7.1 to 11.0 in)
  • Turrets: 360 mm (14 in)
  • Conning tower: 266 mm (10.5 in)
  • Upper deck: 54 mm (2.1 in)
  • Lower deck: 51 mm (2 in)
Laid downApril 1903
Launched28 May 1907
CommissionedJune 1908
DisplacementFull load: 14,900 t (14,700 long tons)
Length135.25 m (443 ft 9 in) loa
Speed18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Complement32 officers 710 enlisted men

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

She isn't listed in any of the fleet actions covered here.

Launched

28 May 1907

Fate

Survived

Broken up for scrap